MACCHIAVELLI, Niccolo. See MA CHIAVELLI, NICCOLO.
McCHORD, Charles Caldwell, American lawyer: b. Springfield, Ky., 3 Dec. 1859. He was educated at Centre College (now Central University), Danville, Ky., and was ad mitted to the bar in 1882, engaging in practice at Louisville, Ky. He was a member of the law firm, McChord, Hines and Norman, until 1911. He was prosecuting attorney of Wash ington County, Ky., in 1886-92, and was chair man of the Kentucky Railroad Commission in 1892-95 and in 1899-1907. He served in the Kentucky senate in 1895-99 and introduced the railroad rate bill enacted by the legislature. He was president of the National Association of Railroad Commissioners in 1906-07, and from 1910 was a member of the Interstate Com merce Commission, serving as chairman in 1915.
McCLAIN, Bailin, American ju rist: b. Salem, Ohio, 26 Nov. 1861; d. 25 May 1915. He was graduated at the State Univer sity of Iowa in 1871, later studying law there, and until 1881 he practised law in Des Moines. He was appointed professor of law at the Uni versity of Iowa in 1881 and was subsequently vice-chancellor and chancellor there. He served as judge of the Supreme Court of Iowa in 1901-12, and was its chief justice in 1906-12.
From 1913 until his death he was professor of law at the Leland Stanford, Jr., University. He was a contributor to the 'American Ency clopedia of Law and Procedure,) wrote exten sively for the law magazines and was author of 'McClain's Annotated Statutes of (1880) ; 'A Treatise on Criminal Law as Now Administered in the United States> (1897) ; 'Constitutional Law in the United (1905; 2d ed., 1910), etc.
McCLELLAN, George Brin ton, American soldier: b. Philadelphia, 3 Dec. 1826; d. Orange, N. J., 29 Oct. 1::5. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and at West Point where he was graduated in 1846. He was brevetted second lieutenant of engi neers and immediately ordered to Mexico, where as lieutenant of a company of sappers, miners and pontoniers he rendered valuable service. He was at the siege of Vera Cruz, at Cerro Gordo and in the attack on the City of Mexico; at Contreras and Churubusco he won the brevet of first lieutenant and was brevetted captain for gallantry at Chapultepec. After the war he was ordered to West Point as cap tain of field labors and instructor in bayonet exercise. In 1851 he was ordered to Fort Dela
ware to superintend its construction. The next year he accompanied Capt. Randolph B. Marcy (later his father-in-law) on an expedition to explore the Red River, and in September 1852 was ordered as senior engineer to Texas, to survey the rivers and harbors of that State. In 1853 he was detailed for the examination of the western part of the proposed route for a Paci fic railroad; and explored the Yakima Pass and various portions of the Cascade Range, and the most direct route to Puget Sound, his report forming the first volume of the 'Pacific Rail road Surveys) published by the government. He was soon afterward detailed to investigate the railroad system of the United States, with a view to obtain all the necessary data on con struction, equipment and management for the successful operation of the Pacific railroad. Of the result of his proceedings he presented a full report in November 1854. In March 1854 he was promoted to captain in the 1st Cavalry. In the spring of 1855 he was sent to Europe to study the organization of European armies and observe the war in the Crimea. He wrote one volume of the report of the commission, which was republished in Philadelphia under the title of The Armies of (1861). He resigned his commission in January 1857, and was for three years vice-president and en gineer of the Illinois Central Railroad, at the end of which time he became general superin tendent of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, and two months later president of the eastern division of the same road. He held this office when the Civil War broke out in 1861. He then received a commission as major-general from the governor of Ohio and proceeded to organ ize the volunteers of the State; the States of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, the western part of Pennsylvania and western part of Virginia were united to form the Department of the Ohio under his command. About 1 June his army began to cross the Ohio River into Vir ginia; on the 18th McClellan himself left Cin cinnati to take the field, and by the middle of July the whole northwestern part of the State had been cleared of Confederate troops and the Wheeling legislature left free to organize a loyal government.